I am joining the disability march to share my voice where it will be heard.  Women’s health takes a back seat to patriarchal industrial economics.  We must take a more holistic matriarchal look at what constitutes health including food production, industrial and environmental toxins, and pharmaceuticals.  We need to focus on how we can better…

I am doing this because, quite frankly, I’m scared. And not only scared for myself as a multiply disabled trans man, but for basically everyone in my life and all around the country, (from sea to Fucking Shiny sea). When I get scared, I need to fight the source, but I’m a brawler, not an…

My daughter deserves a quality education her autism and severe anxiety do not define her she defines herself. I want her to be everything she is meant to be.

Although I live in DC, I have COPD which makes my breathing and my stamina too difficult to join the march. I am a COPD patient advocate who is also a former registered nurse and respiratory therapist. I will be home wearing my pink sweatshirt and red had and will be with you in spirit….

My name is Suzi Duke. I can’t join our local Women’s March because I’m battling leukemia. I have to avoid crowds, and don’t have a lot of stamina. I became permanently disabled due to both my disease and the treatments I must undergo to stay alive. The health care/insurance issue is a life-and-death matter to…

  Why I Am Joining The March : I have nothing to leave my children but a better world.

“On November 8, 2016, I am old, a sexagenarian—the only label that anyone notices. I live alone, and no one asks whether I am a lesbian or a feminist or Zen Buddhist.“I am wrinkled beyond my years; time and illness blur my sexuality. All I did never slowed either.“I am ten days out from the…

If I could trust my body to cooperate, I would be going to Washington to insist–once again, and I can’t believe that this is necessary once again–that women’s bodies are our own business, that women’s rights are human rights, that I count and you count and my daughter counts and my granddaughter, my grandson, my…